NEURA Robotics Raises Up to $1.4B as Europe Pushes Physical AI Toward Scale
NEURA Robotics announced a Series C financing round of up to $1.4 billion on June 10, 2026, positioning the German company as one of the strongest European players in the emerging Physical AI and humanoid robotics race. The round includes backing from Tether, Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon, NVIDIA, imec.xpand, Bosch, Schaeffler, the European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon, InterAlpen Partners and others. NEURA says the capital will support the global deployment of cognitive robots and humanoids, the expansion of its Neuraverse platform, the rollout of NEURA Gyms, and the scaling of manufacturing and deployment infrastructure.
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Bosch, Schaeffler and Siemens Position Humanoid AI as Part of Europe’s Industrial Humanoid Robotics Ecosystem
According to Forbes, Bosch will manufacture robots for Humanoid AI using Schaeffler components. This is an important development not only for Humanoid AI, but also for the broader European industrial robotics landscape. The partnership connects a young UK-based humanoid robotics company with three of Europe’s strongest industrial players: Bosch, Schaeffler and Siemens.
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NVIDIA, Unitree and Sharpa Turn the Humanoid Platform into a Reference Design
On 31 May 2026, ahead of COMPUTEX and GTC Taipei activity, NVIDIA announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, an open reference design intended to help researchers and developers build generalist humanoid systems.
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LinkerBot Targets $6B Valuation as Dexterous Hands Emerge as a Key Bottleneck in Humanoid Robotics
As humanoid robotics moves from stage demonstrations to early industrial deployment, one technical bottleneck is becoming increasingly visible: the hand. Walking, balancing, and full-body motion still dominate public attention, but the commercial value of humanoid robots will ultimately depend on whether they can manipulate the physical world with reliability, precision, and adaptability.
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XDOF emerges from stealth and releases ABC-130K robot manipulation dataset
On June 17, 2026, California-based robotics data infrastructure startup XDOF emerged from stealth with $70 million in funding and released ABC-130K, an open-source bimanual robot manipulation dataset developed with researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, Amazon FAR, Carnegie Mellon University and XDOF. XDOF describes ABC-130K as the largest open-source robot teleoperation dataset to date, with more than 130,000 episodes across 195 bimanual manipulation tasks and roughly 3,500 hours of real-world teleoperation data.
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NVIDIA Halos Brings Safety Infrastructure to Humanoid and Industrial Robots
On June 22, 2026, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Halos for Robotics, a full-stack safety system for robotics and Physical AI. The system extends NVIDIA’s safety work from autonomous vehicles into robots that sense, decide and act in real-world environments.
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Automate 2026 Signals Humanoids’ Entry into Mainstream Industrial Automation
Automate 2026 took place from June 22 to June 25, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago. The event brought together robotics, AI, machine vision, motion control and industrial automation companies, but the strongest humanoid robotics signal came from the dedicated Humanoid Robot Forum and NVIDIA-sponsored Humanoid Robot Pavilion.
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Runtime-Editable Loco-Manipulation System Targets Real-World Humanoid Task Adaptation
On June 24, 2026, Duncan William Calvert published “A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots” on arXiv.
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Turkey’s Humanoid Robotics Ecosystem Gains Momentum with DOF Robotics and AKINROBOTICS
DOF Robotics is preparing a $25 million factory investment in Istanbul to expand its production capacity for service robots and humanoid robot development. The planned DOF TECH facility will be located in the Kuzey Marmara Special Industrial Zone in Arnavutköy and is expected to increase the company’s production area from 4,000 square meters to 16,000 square meters. The new facility is planned as an integrated production site bringing together R&D, software development, automation, machining, welding, painting, assembly, electrical automation, software integration and factory acceptance testing under one roof.
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Agility Robotics’ $2.5B SPAC Deal Brings Humanoid Deployment to Public Markets
On June 24, 2026, Agility Robotics announced plans to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The transaction is expected to create a publicly listed U.S. pure-play humanoid robotics company and values Agility at approximately $2.5 billion. The combined company is expected to trade under the ticker AGLT after the transaction closes, subject to approvals and customary closing conditions. Agility says the deal is intended to support the scale-up of Digit v5, its bipedal humanoid robot designed for logistics, material handling and repetitive industrial tasks.
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